CONSER Editing Guide Update

Update 20 (2011) for the CONSER Editing Guide is now available on the CONSER website.

Call for Proposals - North American Serials Interest Group Annual Conference

The first Call for Proposals for the NASIG 2012 conference will close this Friday, September 16, 2011.

Inquiries may be sent to the PPC Chair (Michael Hanson) and Vice Chair (Karen Davidson) at: prog-plan@nasig.org

NASIG 27th Annual Conference

Creating Harmony from Dis-chord

June 7 - 10, 2012

Nashville, Tennessee

The 2012 Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites proposals for conference sessions. Publishers, vendors, librarians, and others in the field of electronic resources and serials are encouraged to submit proposals relating to scholarly communication, publishing, and resource acquisition, management, and discovery. Proposals based on emerging trends, case studies, and descriptive and experimental research findings are encouraged.

The PPC is looking for topics within, though not limited to, the following learning tracks:

• Access and Discovery
• Acquisitions and Licensing
• Archiving and Preservation
• Cataloging and Metadata
• Collection Development
• eResources, eSerials, eBooks, and  eManagement
• Mobile Technology
• Open Access and Digital Repositories
• Publishing and Scholarly communication
• Standards

To propose a program or idea, please use the online form. This Call for Proposals will close on September 16, 2011.

Please note the following:

• Formerly, NASIG conferences included sessions with the designations of "Strategy" and "Tactic." These designations will not be used at the 2012 conference, and all sessions that formerly held these designations will be one hour long.
• The Program Planning Committee welcomes proposals that are still in the formative stages, and may work with potential presenters to focus their proposals further.   
• Proposals should name any particular products or services that are integral to the content of the presentation. However, as a matter of NASIG policy, programs should not be used as a venue to promote or attack any product, service, or institution.
• Time management issues generally limit each session to two to three speakers for conference sessions. Panels of four (4) or more speakers must be discussed in advance with the Program Planning Committee (prog-plan@nasig.org)
• NASIG has a reimbursement policy for conference speakers whose organizations do not cover expenses.

Inquiries may be sent to the PPC Chair (Michael Hanson) and Vice Chair (Karen Davidson) at: prog-plan@nasig.org

We look forward to a great conference in Nashville!

Michael Hanson and Karen Davidson

NASIG PPC Chair and Vice Chair

ISSN and You: Using ISSN SuperNumber in the Digital Environment

Regina Romano Reynolds will present a webinar entitled, "ISSN and You: Using ISSN SuperNumber in the Digital Environment" as part of a series offered by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The webinar is schedule for November 9, 2011.

More information is available on the ALCTS website.

Upcoming Webinar on the CONSER Standard Record

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced an upcoming webinar, "The CONSER Standard Record: Where Are We Now?" Steve Shadle will present this hour-long webinar on October 5, 2011.

Find more information, including fees and how to register, on the ALCTS website.

CONSER Operations Meeting 2011 Outcomes

The report from the CONSER Operations Meeting held May 5-6, 2011, is now available.

Topics covered include:

• Linking multiple formats
• ISSN
• Working with RDA records
• Future of CONSER documentation
• Open Access Journal Project
• CONSER RDA decisions that need to be made

Call for Proposals: ALCTS Cataloging Norms Interest Group

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Cataloging & Classification Section (CCS) Cataloging Norms Interest Group invites speakers for its meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, June 25th from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Presentation topics should be of current interest to catalogers, cataloging managers and administrators.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Evolution, definition, and functions of the catalog and cataloging norms
• Emerging concepts and implementations of "next generation catalogs"
• RDA and FRBR
• Cataloging in hybrid and digital libraries
• Changes in catalogers' workflows
• Emerging perceptions of cataloging quality
• How end users' expectations and behaviors affect cataloging norms
• Metadata records and elements in different contexts
• The impact of web norms on cataloging norms from the perspectives of web developers and catalogers

Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length, with additional time allowed for questions and answers. Please send abstracts of proposals to co-chairs by Monday, May 9th.  We look forward to hearing from you!

Cataloging Norms Co-Chairs,

Michele Seikel 

Associate Prof. of Bibliography, Cataloger, 

Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University 

seikel@okstate.edu

Co-Chair, ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group

Melanie McGurr 

Coordinator of Authority Control and Database Maintenance 

Ohio State University Libraries 

Co-Chair, ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group

mcgurr.2@osu.edu

via OCLC-CAT

Request for Proposals from the ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Continuing Resources Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group (CRS C&RL IG) requests presentation proposals for our ALA Annual meeting in New Orleans Sunday June 26, 2011, from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Withdrawing print when libraries also have online access
• Distributed print repositories
• Coping with hard economic times in continuing resources acquisitions and collection management
• Pay-per-view pricing for journal articles and new models of acquisitions
• Continuing resources cataloging
• Next generation OPACs and continuing resources displays
• Accessing continuing resources through discovery platforms
• Continuing resources in a mobile computing environment 
• Other topics?

Each presentation should be approximately 20 minutes. There will be time for discussion. 

Please e-mail proposals by May 1st to Beth Bernhardt  beth_bernhardt@uncg.edu and Patrick Carr carrp@ecu.edu

Please include in your proposal:

• Title of presentation
• Brief summary of proposed presentation
• Name(s) and position(s) of presenter(s)
• E-mail address(es) of presenter(s) 

via SERIALST